APPLETON – After two weeks of declining new COVID-19 instances in Appleton, the city posted its weekly total last week.
Ninety-five new coronavirus cases were reported from Monday, August 24 to Sunday, erasing the city’s previous record of 84 cases in a week set at the end of July.At that time, more than a thousand new cases were reported per day around the world.the state, after which Governor Tony Evers issued a masked court order that would last until September.
With local instances declining in the weeks following the city’s tenure, the city’s head of fitness, Kurt Eggebrecht, said he was disappointed to see the new record set last week.
The burgeoning cases are not similar to a specific epidemic, Eggebrecht said, but to a tendency of others to return to the types of giant gatherings discouraged by fitness officials since the start of the pandemic.
“I feel like other people are giving up (not) on mass demonstrations,” Eggebrecht said.
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Many others who reported their infection to the fitness branch last week recently went to funerals, weddings or other giant gatherings with a circle of family and friends, occasions that gathered between 50 and 100 people who were not all masked, he said..
Beyond the talks, Eggebrecht said that the bars and restaurants remain those of some scattered throughout the area.
Across the state, the average seven days of new cases reported according to the day has been declining since a peak on July 26, after which Evers instituted the mask’s mandate.And on Monday, state fitness officials reported only 266 new cases, the lowest in a day since mid-June: the number of tests processed since the previous day was thousands less than the labs that were running this summer.
But Wisconsinns are preparing for a face-to-face return to school that can bring K-12 students and their families, and whether infections will resume at the beginning of the school year.
At Apple, however, this threat is largely mitigated for now: The Appleton-area school district voted earlier in August to practically start the school year.
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